but today, he gave us some interesting fodder. he made the point himself when he was governor of massachusetts, he referenced some of the same types of things that you can't control that will happen in terms of you know, the numbers go up and down and he said what you have to do is look at the trend. so, i say let's look at the trend. the trend from president obama is consecutive months of job growth, 4.4 million new jobs, 500,000 in manufacturing despite what mitt romney tells you and let's look at mitt romney's record as governor of massachusetts. he brought unemployment downy what? self-deportation. also was 47th in job creation. i say we take him on on that and let's compare records. >> republicans love to champion as you know, taking an ax to federal government, arguing over who would cut more government workers, but over the past year, the country has shed nearly 170,000 public workers. i mean, that's the problem, isn't it? >> look, unemployment in t private sector has come down to the point where there's a net gain of jobs